Read this student summary of act 1 of the miracle worker.

in act 1, twenty-year-old annie sullivan is preparing to leave her school and become a teacher herself. she is bidding farewell to anagnos, her mentor, and to many young girls who have been her students and friends. the action slows when annie and anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring. then anagnos and the girls present her with gifts, and she is appreciative and sentimental. she voices some concerns about leaving perkins.

which sentence should be removed to improve this summary?

in act 1, twenty-year-old annie sullivan is preparing to leave her school and become a teacher herself.
she is bidding farewell to anagnos, her mentor, and to many young girls who have been her students and friends.
the action slows when annie and anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring.
then anagnos and the girls present her with gifts, and she is appreciative and sentimental.

You should remove the following sentence: "The action slows when Annie and Anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring" from the summary.

The problem with this sentence is that it gives a value judgement ("boring"). This is an opinion, and it is not what is expected from a student when writing a summary. You should stick to the facts and the narration.

Besides, a summary is meant to be giving as much information in as few words as possible, and this sentence is only adding unnecessary length to it.

in june, we will have been married for eighteen months. (i am assuming this is what you want? the sentence, as you have presented it, is grammatically incorrect--   you want it corrected, yes? )

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)